Terrible Mother

Article Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22916651/

Why someone didn't eliminate this woman's ability to procreate years ago is a mystery to me. She left 8 children (ranging in age from 1 to 16) at home alone with her 15-year-old daughter in charge while she flew to Nigeria to marry a man she met online. Two of the children (ages 3 and 4) weren't even her own. She left on December 31 and was arrested upon arrival at George Bush Intercontinental Airport on January 28. She was gone almost an entire month, leaving them "with little food and no money..." (although she swears otherwise). Sure, the prosecutor is lying when he says the woman's children "were starving and her older children couldn't recall their own birth dates." Her 9-year-old son said he and the 1-year-old "ate still-frozen pizza for breakfast..." When they found the children (now in foster care) in early January, authorities also discovered "there were no diapers, baby food or formula for the infant, no sheets on beds and fruit was rotting in a basket..."

My opinion, not that it really matters: put her in a cell for a month with similarly squalid conditions and see how she feels. Make her rummage through a scarcely stocked refrigerator and resort to eating frozen pizza. Make her sleep on a mattress with no sheets. Put a pile of rotting fruit in the corner and make sure fruit flies can hover and drive her crazy. Or better yet, just leave her there to rot like the fruit. Someone else can raise her children and make sure they're fed and loved.